PRETTY Season 3 Trailer

It's coming. Be prepared to get PRETTY all over again!

What's Up with Velvet Candy?

As Michael Champagne might say "Well, it's been quite a year". Velvet Candy may not have been blogging about our many adventures in Tinsel Town, but we have been quite busy with PRETTY (promoting Season 2 and gearing up for Season 3) while making the festival rounds with RUBDOWN as well as high profile screenings of THE MIKADO PROJECT and wrapping up post-production on QWERTY. With no new projects on the horizon, Velvet Candy hopes to soon revisit some older projects that have been "in turnaround" for quite some time.

Meanwhile PRETTY has been continuing to get press coverage - including an article in EMMY magazine, another one in ABC SOAPS IN DEPTH and our second fun appearance on the KTLA Morning News. Web coverage has been non-stop thanks to the fine folks at We Love Soaps, Blog Talk Radio and Mingle Media TV - considering our last original episode premiered months ago - this is pretty big news. We expect the publicity wagon to get rolling again for Season 3 this fall. By the way, Season 3 is being funded entirely by the fervent PRETTY fanbase.

Meanwhile, RUBDOWN is the little short that just won't quit with screenings at Festivals like THE TORIN GLBT FILM FESTIVAL, THE BOSTON LGBT FILM FESTIVAL, NEW ZEALAND OUTTAKES and THE PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL SHORTFEST. There may be a few more on the horizon before this baby is through.

Hope to have more Velvet candy news soon!

PRETTY Awards and Press Update

The PRETTY News just seems to be coming faster that we can report it these days. The other night while we celebrating the second season finale we got word that we WON 5 Indie Intertube Awards. Here's our winners:

• Best Comedy - tied with SQUATTERS
• Stacy McQueen - Best Actress
• Sam Pancake - Best Actor
• "Gumdrop the Unicorn" - Best Theme Song (Music by Bret Silverman, Lyrics by Steve Silverman)
• Michael Taylor Gray - Best Supporting Actor

And then the next day we woke up to this:

And this:

 And this...

More news coming soon!

More PRETTY Award Nominations!

SEVEN INDIE SOAP AWARD NOMINATIONS!!!

INDIE SOAP OF THE YEAR

8.13
ANYONE BUT ME

CELESTE BRIGHT
CELL

DIARY OF A SINGLE MOM

MISS BEHAVE
PRETTY

THE BEST FRIEND

OUSTANDING LEAD ACTOR

Anthony Anderson, ANACOSTIA

Danny Cameron, CELL

Michael Park, GOTHAM

Nick Mathews, IN BETWEEN MEN

Will Conlon, OUT WITH DAD

Trevor Nelson, MISS BEHAVE

Sam Pancake, PRETTY

Camden Toy, THE BAY

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS 

Chante Bowser, ANACOSTIA

Nicole Pacent, ANYONE BUT ME

Valery Ortiz, DIARY OF A SINGLE MOM

Kathryn Neville Brown, EMPIRE

Kirsten Vangsness, PRETTY

Kim Zimmer, STEAMBOAT

Pat Ruton, TRAILER MADE

Nadia Bjorlin, VENICE

Hillary B. Smith, VENICE

OUTSTANDING WRITINGSusan Miller & Tina Cesa Ward, ANYONE BUT ME

Anthony Anderson, ANACOSTIA

Sonya Steele, CELESTE BRIGHT

Mark Gardner, CELL

Cheryl L. West, DIARY OF A SINGLE MOM

Greg Turner & Brian Hewson, EMPIRE

Susan Bernhardt, MISS BEHAVE

Jason Leaver, OUT WITH DAD

Steve Silverman, PRETTY

OUTSTANDING DIRECTINGTina Cesa Ward, ANYONE BUT ME
Gregori J. Martin, THE BAY
Robert Townsend, DIARY OF A SINGLE MOM

Mark Gardner, CELL

Scott Brown, ASYLUM

Jason Leaver, OUT WITH DAD

Steve Silverman, PRETTY

BEST STORYLINE

ANACOSTIA: Mia copes with the aftermath of Michael's death

ANYONE BUT ME: Sophie's sexual questioning

DIARY OF A SINGLE MOM: Bo tries to go back to work

EMPIRE: Theodora takes over Empire

MISS BEHAVE: Tori's blackout

PRETTY: Rabina's pregnancy

THE BAY: Igor's revenge

VENICE: Gina helps The Colonel after his stroke

OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE

ANACOSTIA

ANYONE BUT ME

IN BETWEEN MEN

ORANGE JUICE IN BISHOP'S GARDEN

PRETTY

STEAMBOAT

THE BAY

VENICE

PRETTY News: DEEP DISH, INDIE INTERTUBE and iTunes

Deep Dish has named PRETTY  

• Best Comedy of 2010! 
• Stacy McQueen - Best Actress! 
• Michael/Ribina/Ethan - Best Triangle
• Sam Pancake - Runner-Up, Best Actor 
• Dee Freeman - Runner Up, Best Supporting Actress

Indie Intertube has nominated PRETTY for 9 Web Awards: 

• Best Comedy
• Steve Silverman - Best Writing
• Stacy McQueen - Best Actress
• Sam Pancake - Best Actor
• Steve Silverman/Nicole Opyr - Best Promo
• "Gumdrop the Unicorn" - Best Theme Song
• Michael Taylor Gray - Best Supporting Actor
• Kirsten Vangsness - Best Supporting Actress
• Audience Favorite!

All 7 versions of Bret Silverman's "Gumdrop the Unicorn" are now available for download on iTunes

• Bret's original version
• Jennifer Kes Remington & Pakk Hui
• Bobby Banuelos
• Shelly Rann
• That's What She Said
• Naked Peasants
• Mary Edwards